Shankuo Erzhou is the Xiping County of the Han Dynasty, and it is also the hometown of the Qiang people and Tuyuhun. Three years ago, it was still the core ruling area of the Longyou Jiedu Envoy, due to the Anshi Rebellion, the internal transfer of the Longyou Army to quell the rebellion, so that the Hehuang area was the first to be occupied by the Tubo people, and then threatened the security of Liangzhou and Lanzhou, and the loss of the Baiting guard of Jiaocheng made Wuwei City directly exposed to the front of the Tubo people's soldiers.

The Tuyuhun people and Qiang soldiers accounted for a large proportion of the composition of the second army of Longyou in Hexi, just like the Flying Tiger Cavalry carefully created by Li Siye, among which twenty percent of the children of Hexi were also Qiang. These Qiang soldiers also have the deepest feelings for Hexi and Longyou. The Qiang generals represented by Fumeng Lingcha have always been active on the battlefields of Hexi and even Anxi, and have made great contributions to the Tang Dynasty.

The Qiang soldiers were known for their bravery and good fighting, and after Li Siye supported the new emperor to ascend the throne, he promoted several Qiang generals in the Flying Tiger Cavalry.

Li Siye marched into Tianzhu County with Tian Zhen as the vanguard, and the Tubo army stationed here had already fled completely, but one of the tamed slaves Dongdai could not retreat, and was directly captured by the vanguard army led by Tian Zhen on the road to the north.

The slave tamers who provided the supply of the army included children waiting to be fed, old people in their old age, and tens of thousands of livestock. Capturing these Tibetan people was a burden to the Flying Tiger Riders.

Tian Zhen sent a messenger to Li Siye, suggesting that these Tibetan people be killed.

Li Siye wrote back to him: "How can a general kill the people indiscriminately, now there are fewer people in Hexi in Longyou, so it is better to move to Hexi than to kill them." Now, if there is a need for a hasty march, you might as well confiscate their weapons and continue to march towards Kuozhou, where I will send someone to receive them. ”

Tian Zhen had no choice but to delay for half a day, only to kill Dongben and the officials who tamed the slave Dongdai, and confiscate all the short knives and hunting bows carried by all the herdsmen and people, and then left them and marched in the direction of Kuozhou.

These herdsmen are leaderless, in a dazed situation, they seem to have nowhere to go, if they run in the direction of Tibet, the Tang army is fighting with Su Biru, and then break through and be captured, I am afraid that they will not be as lucky as now.

Li Siye sent a general with 3,000 soldiers, and to their surprise, this senior official of the Tang army turned out to be a native of Tibet, and he could speak fluent Tubo dialect with a Luo Cheng accent. At first, the herdsmen were very resistant to this man, and regarded him as a traitor.

The general with the butcher's knife in his hand was not angry, but stood on the mound and shouted to everyone: "It's not that there are no generals in the Hexi army who are easy to kill, why didn't King Yong send someone else, but he sent me." This shows that he is willing to accept you and provide you with a way to live in Hexi, so that you can settle down and become the people of the Tang Dynasty. ”

A few thorns among the Tibetan herdsmen shouted in the crowd: "What is the name of the general, do you dare to report the name?" ”

"Why don't you dare, my name is Lun Weiliang, my great-grandfather is Sun Zan Gampo's Great Lun Lu Dongzan, my great-grandfather is also Tubo Dalun Gar Qinling, my grandfather is the king of Datang Bachuan County on Gongren, and my father is the king of Wuwei County of the Tang Dynasty on Chengjie."

The herdsmen were dumbfounded, no one in the whole Tubo did not know the legendary Gar family, starting from Lu Dongzan's envoy to the Tang Dynasty to marry Princess Wencheng, the father and son of the Gar family controlled the military and political power of Tubo. But throughout the ages, the ministers have no good end, the adult Chide Songzan is unwilling to fall into power, and began to purge the Gar family, on Gongren's father Gar Qinling was crowned with the crime of rebellion and killed, he and his uncle turned their heads to the Tang Dynasty, and only then did they have the hairpin of this era of the Rong's family of generals.

The elders of several tribes raised their hands and asked, "If we want to submit to the river and go to Hexi, can we give us land?" Can we drive the yaks to graze? ”

"Of course you can, but it can only be wasteland, and some of the ones who want to graze Longyou are grasslands."

The herdsmen finally accepted the status quo: "The fact that the imperial court can send the general to accept us shows that they really want to give us a way to live, and we are willing to follow the general to move to Hexi." ”

The idea of these herdsmen is very simple, in Tubo, they were originally used as cattle and horses, and how bad could they be when they ran to Hexi.

Li Siye led the rear army to arrive, and Lun Weiliang went to see him in the big tent, saying that the next battle would inevitably capture more tamed slaves Dongdai, and let these who were willing to surrender stay in Tianzhu and Yongdeng counties for the time being, and wait until more prisoners were sent over, and then move them to Liangzhou and Lanzhou.

Li Siye asked suspiciously: "To take care of so many prisoners, it takes a lot of troops, and the troops in my hands can't be wasted in this kind of place." ”

"Please rest assured, no matter how many captives the lord sends, only one thousand people are enough."

"A thousand?" Xu Bin, who was standing beside him, asked: "This matter is not a child's play, so many prisoners are gathered together, but only a thousand people are sent to guard it, in case they riot and attack our army from behind, our great victory may be in vain." ”

On Weiliang replied: "Although the military advisor's worries are not unreasonable, but Weiliang's ancestors are from Tibet, and they know the situation in Tibet better than you. Most of the slaves in the Eastern Dai were commoners and slaves, and they had no loyalty to the so-called Tibetans and Zampu. And the people of Tibet are different from the people of the Central Plains, the people of the Central Plains are influenced by thousands of years of Confucian loyalty, they are related to the family and country, and the fallen leaves return to their roots, while the people of Tibet do not have such influence, as long as they are given the conditions to live, they will go with the flow, and they will never have the idea of going back. And Weiliang asked the lord for the thousand men not to guard the captives, but to help them and maintain order among them. ”

Li Siye nodded approvingly and said: "What Wei Liang said is deeply in my heart, I will leave this matter to you with full authority, if you can place all the prisoners smoothly and there is no big mistake, you will definitely be on a par with the first merit." ”

On Weiliang kneeling on the ground and giving a thank-you gift: "Weiliang thanked the lord." ”

Li Siye nodded, and really only left a thousand people for Lun Weiliang, and led the army to follow the footsteps of Tian Zhen's former army to Kuozhou.

The state of Kuozhou is in Hualong County, because it was changed to Guangwei County to avoid Li Longji's name, because it was once the garrison of the Longyou Ningsai Army, the area and solidity are much larger than the general county seat, but it still can't carry more than 100,000 troops of Subiru.

Su Biru had no choice but to drive the four slave tamers out of the city. These ordinary people had no shelter from the wind and rain, as Ben ordered them to march northwest and move to the area of Qinghai Lake behind the stone castle.

However, Tian Zhen, the vanguard general of the Hexi Army, had already arrived with his troops, and the four Dongben of Dongdai got together to discuss, since Lord Ruben had abandoned us, otherwise he would simply vote for the Tang Army.

More than 20,000 slave tamers surrendered to Tian Zhen, and Tian Zhen naturally did not refuse to come, and took them in and waited for Li Siye's rear army to come and receive them.

The Flying Tiger cavalry approached the city, constantly shouting and challenging the city, and the Tubo army lost its core combat power, such as this did not have the confidence to go out of the city to engage in battle, so it had to order the slave tamer Dongdai who lived in the city to repair and strengthen the city wall every day.

There are still too many people left in the city, especially the domesticated slaves Dongdai, who raised a large number of livestock, and the smell of manure is overwhelming. The streets of the city were covered with felt tents, and many people had to sleep on the streets without shelter from the wind and rain.

It is now winter, and the Tibetan people have hoarded a large amount of forage in the city in advance, making the people's living area even more cramped. These forages were originally raised for the cavalry of the Subi tribe, but now the cavalry has been damaged, and the remaining forage is slightly enough to tame the yaks and sheep of Dongdai in addition to satisfying Ruben's personal guard Dongdai and Tubo generals, sheep and light cavalry.